I like sad ambient music ... Do you?

Redshirt

While I typically dislike sharing my music (because I regard it as a sort of private sanctuary) .... I was just wondering if this is common amongst INTPs .... Do you like sad ambient music? For some reason music is the one thing that makes me feel very strong emotions. And I usually gravitate to songs that make me sad because for some reason I like the feeling? The feeling of being sad/contemplative? I like the looming, almost euphoric sense of sadness that such music gives me. (Although sometimes I think songs sound sad because of my interpretation). Its almost like music can express in some way what I could never in words .... I think about the universe, our place in it, life & death, meaning of life, the potential for a God .... I was just wondering because it feels a bit lonely to have interests that most people do not. Im 20 and I feel mostly alone mentally... Anyway below are some examples. What do you think?

Oh also my favorite song (its trance) is hartseer by Bart Claessen (radio edit) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LZlcNWggR7M
Is there a chance any of you like it? For some reason the main chorus sounds sad and mysterious to me. What do you think?

of the swarm

I don't listen to a lot of ambient music, but when I do, it's usually flute, violin and/or piano. Something that flows easily- pure electronic music sort of pokes at me too much to be ambient, but I like it when it accompanies other instruments. Alternatively, classical music fits the purpose.

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Dark Magician

Not an intp, more like a depersonalized infj, but ambient of all kinds I can always enjoy when I'm in the right mood to explore an alternate universe in my mind. Ambient requires a lot of imagination on my part for me to fully appreciate its delicious and lifelike atmospheres...
as for SAD ambient music... I actually haven't really had a chance to listen to much of that.. maybe ambient of isolation and despair? lol

Resident disMember

I do, but it doesn't have to be sad. I just like the imagination factor with it. Songs with lyrics usually don't relate to my emotions or my lifestyle.

I'll never understand how someone raised in a suburban home can listen to gangster rap and identify with it. I just, I don't know, maybe most people really are just stupid and identify with whatever they think is cool, rather than what actually speaks to their soul.

Spiritual "Woo"

I would say the overall mood to the song is "this is it." There is very much the feeling of nothingness in this song. Like we are born for one thing and if you mess it up its on you. Didn't like the ending; it just sorta ended.

I like complex rhythm stuff -stuff you have to listen to a few times before you get it. Simple rhythmic layers are usually good. I also like full sounding cords in music. Never been one for unholy sounding music so stuff that feels incomplete I don't like. I like music like I like my fiction, a good build up and an epic finish with a decent conclusion.

As for the search for truth,
I know from my own painful searching,
with its many blind alleys,
how hard it is to take a reliable step,
be it ever so small,
towards the understanding of that which is truly significant.

~Albert Einstein

The purpose of life is to eliminate suffering and to give unconditional positive feedback.
You can never completely eliminate suffering but giving unconditional positive feedback without a condition is only meant for true truth seekers.
Therefore, the purpose of life is to spread your message.

I have been enlightened by coming to grips with my shadow self and now I see.
That is not where the story ends. I have seen the light in my pursuit.
I speak the truth - to the heart of the matter.

"The difficulty of an impossible task is amplified infinitely by the ease to which it is not done, therefore, a task that is accomplished is difficult and a task that is never done is easy" Author unknown.

Redshirt

I'm not into ambient (actually in the whole popular music) but recently I'm liking trance too. Expecially Juno Reactor, my favourite songs are Guardian Angel and Solaris (the last one has a bit of ambient now that I think about it). Brian Eno is quite good, but I feel to recommend you authors that already reached and surpassed Eno's style, such as Ligeti: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-iVYu5lyX5M

Banned

^ Did you listen to Juno Reactor's first album, Transmissions? It's a different thing from their later ethnically infused work, more solitary and kinda celestial-yet-claustrophobic... Not to mention the second one Lu.Ci-Ana (sp?) which is purely ambient.

You Silly Willy

Your embed gave me an eargasm and I know I love trance sooooo... yes
As for the sadness, I'm not sure. I'd say it feels like something growing very distant. I can, certainly, see how sadness would intermingle with that feeling. Actually, I can't of just feel like things are fading away when I hit some of the chorus in that song.

“Loneliness does not come from having no people about one, but from being unable to communicate the things that seem important to oneself, or from holding certain views which others find inadmissible.” -Carl Jung